According to indeed.com, the average RN salary in CA, in October 2014, was $71,000. As per the BLS, the mean annual and hourly wages, in May 2013, were $96,980 and $46.62, respectively. Since the cost of living is quite high, the average registered nurse salary in California is 7% higher than the national average.
Full Definition of POVERTY. 1. a: the state of one who lacks a usual or socially acceptable amount of money or material possessions b: renunciation as a member of a religious order of the right as an individual to own property. 2. : scarcity, dearth.
Relative poverty. It can be argued that poverty is best understood in a relative way â what is poor in New York is not the same as what is poor in Mumbai (where over 50% of the population live in slums.) Many relative definitions of poverty conclude that it is the inability to reach a minimum accepted standard of living in a particular society. Another approach is to look at deprivation, the poor being defined as those who are deprived from the benefits of a modern economy.